Phyllis Bottome - Love Quotes

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The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.

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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

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Pride had made Prue grow stubbornly silent, more silent than Ted wanted; and because women must lead up to love-making by conversation, bexause kisses only seem natural to them after tender words, Prue had grow extremely cold to Ted.

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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

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The boy still has that uneasy half-deluded love a man never wholly loses for his mother.

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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

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